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delivered, &c.: i.e. to their will (Luk_23:25). Thus the Lord's execution was in Jewish hands (Act_2:23). The centurion and his quaternion of soldiers merely carried out the decision of the chief priests, Pilate having pronounced no sentence, but washed his hands, literally as well as metaphorically, of the matter.
to be = in order that (Greek. hina) He might be.